Louth Town Council
The Sessions House, Eastgate,
Louth, Lincolnshire, LN11 9AJ
01507 355895
clerk@louthtowncouncil.gov.uk
To the Members of the Town Council of Louth:
You are hereby summoned to attend a meeting of Louth Town Council’s Planning and Community Resources Committees which will be held on Tuesday 8th March 2022 in The Old Court Room, The Sessions House, Eastgate, Louth at 7pm. The business to be dealt with at the meeting is listed in the agenda below.
Please note, there will be a 15 minute public forum between 6.45pm and 7.00pm when members of the public may ask questions or make short statements to the Council on agenda items, and your attendance is requested during this period.
Any public, wishing to speak on an agenda item or ‘sit in’ on the meeting(s) please contact the Town Clerk, using the above email address, in advance, to discuss attendance arrangements. If possible, please provide written representation rather than attending in person.
Members of the public should note that they will not be allowed to speak during the formal meeting.
Mrs. L.M. Phillips
Town Clerk
Dated this 3rd Day of March 2022
AGENDA
PLANNING COMMITTEEE
(Chairman: Cllr. Mrs. S. Crew, Vice Chairman: Cllr. K. Norman, Membership: All Cllrs.)
1. Apologies for Absence
To receive and note apologies where valid reasons for absence have been given to the Town Clerk at least one hour prior to the meeting.
2. Declarations of Interest / Dispensations
To receive declarations of interest in accordance with the Localism Act, 2011 – being any pecuniary interest in agenda items not previously recorded on Members’ Register of Interests and any written requests for dispensation received by the proper officer under section 22 of the Localism Act.
3. Minutes
To approve as a correct record the notes of the Planning Committee meeting held on 8th February 2022.
4. Applications received by the Local Planning Authority
To consider and make observations on all planning applications received including those listed in the schedule (PA/Schedule 03-08-22). (Attached).
5. Planning Correspondence
Committee to receive planning decisions, enforcement complaints, appeal decisions, temporary road closures etc., as advised by the District and County Council. (Attached).
6. Proposed Works to Trees
Committee to consider the following proposed works to protected trees (details circulated by email 3rd March 2022):
a. Location: El Dio, Stewton Lane. Proposal: T36 – Copper Beech – (T1 on the plan) – Prune due to threat to property, excessive shade and frequent branch breakages. T2 on plan as per T1. T75 – Copper Beech – (T3 on plan) – Prune to reduce excessive shade, branch breakage and to improve tree shape.
7. Next Meeting
Committee to note that the date of the next scheduled Planning Committee meeting is 5th April 2022.
COMMUNITY RESOURCES COMMITTEE
(Chairman: Cllr. A. Leonard, Vice Chairman: Cllr. M. Bellwood, Membership: All Cllrs.)
1. Apologies for Absence
To receive apologies where valid reasons for absence have been given to the Town Clerk at least one hour prior to the meeting.
2. Chairman’s Remarks
3. Declarations of Interest / Dispensations
To receive declarations of interest in accordance with the Localism Act, 2011 – being any pecuniary interest in agenda items not previously recorded on Members’ Register of Interests and any written requests for dispensation received by the Proper Officer under section 22 of the Localism Act.
4. Minutes
To approve as a correct record the notes of the Community Resources Committee meeting held on 25th January 2022.
5. London Road Pavilion and Sportsground
Committee to discuss the presentation received on 25th January 2022 and the attached document supplied by Cllr. Horton with a view to resolving upon whether to make a corporate response.
6. CCTV
Council to note that further to the informal zoom meeting held with Mr. J. Challen on 28th February 2022, the Service Manager for Safer Communities at ELDC and Sergeant Kelly Palmer of Louth Neighbourhood Policing Team it was agreed, at Sergeant Palmer’s suggestion, that placement of a new CCTV camera in the vicinity of Northgate, covering up Vickers Lane and along Northgate past the Millers Daughter should be investigated.
7. Closed Session Item
Committee to resolve to move into closed session in accordance with the Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960 due to the business to be discussed in the following item, information being of a confidential, third party and commercial nature in relation to grass cutting.
8. Next Meeting
Council to note that the date of the next scheduled Community Resources Committee meeting is 10th May 2022.